1) I love me some Raven-and-Charles-as-kids backstory
2) I really adore the image of Erik as gatekeeper at the door, denying access/protecting Charles from anyone who might disturb him
3) I like that the story is relatively subtle while still managing to get across what I wanted, which is the combination of Raven and Charles really loving each other but having grown farther apart, farther than probably either of them realizes - the contrast between them as children, when they were each other's everything, to them now, when they don't know what the other is thinking or doing
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1) I love me some Raven-and-Charles-as-kids backstory
2) I really adore the image of Erik as gatekeeper at the door, denying access/protecting Charles from anyone who might disturb him
3) I like that the story is relatively subtle while still managing to get across what I wanted, which is the combination of Raven and Charles really loving each other but having grown farther apart, farther than probably either of them realizes - the contrast between them as children, when they were each other's everything, to them now, when they don't know what the other is thinking or doing